Alonso Zea Vera, MD

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Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology
Department: Neurology

Contact information
3500 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 5138081923
Education:
MD (Medical Doctor)
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima Peru, 2012.
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Description of Clinical Expertise

Pediatric Movement Disorders
Dystonia
Chorea
Ataxia
Tremor
Tics and Tourette Syndrome
Deep Brain Stimulation

Selected Publications

Elizabeth Pickup, Tasnim Naima, Adriana de la Flor, Cecilia Bouska, Laura Tochen, Alonso Zea Vera: Genetic Testing Practices in Children with Cerebral Palsy. Child Neurology Society Meeting, Charlotte, NC October 2025.

Kuntal Sen, Sanam Zarei, Elizabeth Record, Cassidy Petree, Laura Tochen, Alonso Zea Vera, Gaurav Varshney.: Elucidating the Clinical and Molecular Basis of TBC1D24-Related Disorders. Child Neurology Society Meeting. Charlotte, NC October 2025.

Cecilia Bouska, Laura Tochen, Kuntal Sen, Alonso Zea Vera: Genetic and Non-Genetic Etiology of PRRT2-Negative Paroxysmal Dyskinesia (PKD). Child Neurology Society Meeting, Charlotte, NC October 2025.

Huerta Hurtado A, Zea Vera A.: [Diagnosis and treatment of dyskinesias in pediatrics]. Medicina (B Aires) September 2025.

Quiroz V, Alecu JE, Zubair U, Bernardi K, Zaman Z, Rong J, Tam A, Kunta A, Agianda HP, Battaglia N, Schmidt HJD, Resch D, Wyman N, Vogt LM, Uraba WB, Becker L, Kothur K, Gill D, Suarez B, Jofre JI, Arias C, Castiglioni C, da Silva Möller PD, Pinto Duarte AF, Eggers-Lisboa A, Ríos-Pohl L, Gonzalez-Ubilla M, Chaudhari C, Salazar-Villacorta A, Tian X, Dai L, Ding C, Zamani M, Nourbakhsh P, Shariati G, Pringsheim T, Lim WK, Bartolini E, Stamelou M, Bhatia P, Kruer MC, Desai S, Iype M, Necpál J, Crosiers D, Jones HF, Perez-Sanchez JR, Unal ED, Lopez-Ariztegui N, Kola S, Lin WS, Mansour AH, Triki CC, Fernandez-Alvarez E, Roze E, Sahu J, Doja A, Nardocci N, Caputo D, Koy A, Bhate S, Kaliakatsos M, Robinson R, Hassell J, Pons R, Munchau A, Soliani L, Zea-Vera A, Tochen L, Morales-Briceño H, Dale RC, D'Gama A, Loddenkemper T, Pearl PL, Mohammad SS, Kurian MA, Gorodetsky C, Ortigoza-Escobar JD, Schierbaum L, Yang K, Ebrahimi-Fakhari D.: Molecular and clinical spectrum of epilepsy-dyskinesia syndromes: a cross-sectional study of 609 patients. Brain August 2025.

Pickup E, Garris J, Zea Vera A: Movement Disorders in Children: A Primer for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Specialists. Phys Med Rehabil Clin N Am August 2025.

McLeod GA, Switzer AR, Bartolini L, Zea Vera AG, Smith EE, Ganesh A: Management of Patients With Mild Cognitive Impairment in the Era of Anti-Amyloid Therapy: A Worldwide Neurology Survey. Neurol Clin Pract. June 2025.

Fu KA, Chan JM, Stepanyan K, Elting S, Manchanda A, Zea Vera AG, Vermillion M, Wilhalme H, Keener AM, Strowd RE 3rd.: Education Research: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Journal Club Formats to Enhance Evidence-Based Practice Through Social Cognitive Learning Theory. Neurol Educ March 2025.

Roberts JI, Zea Vera AG: Practice Current-Surveys Navigating Equipoise in Clinical Neurology Worldwide: Stepping Outside of the Echo Chambers. Neurol Clin Pract Feb 2025.

Sen K, Vera AZ, Puronurmi A, Gropman A, Wongkittichote P, Ganetzky R, Autio K, Kastaniotis A: Biallelic Variants in LIPT2 as a Cause of Infantile-Onset Dystonia: Expanding the Clinical and Molecular Spectrum. Pediatr Neurol January 2025.

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